Sunday, 19 July 2015
Justice Reform discussions with NAACP and POTUS: Long Game
Back to the grassroots of community organizing to address Justice Reform. "Back to" I say - if you actually thought Obama ever left. I've always thought he was busy gathering and establishing and clearing grounds of power to check some political mates. Impatience always obscures the view of many and often creates disconnected forgetfulness or... selective memory. But for a few there is that thing called The Long Game.
And here we are now…tackling the problem of the School to Prison Pipeline. Going down the VERY long list of judicial issues and injustices visited upon the Black and Latino population in particular. We cannot expect any effective change in equalizing opportunity for education, growth, or sustainable success - or at least a shot at it, if the way we apply law and punishment isn't also equalized.
"If you are a parent, then you know there are times when boys and girls are gonna act out in school. So the question is: are we going to let principals and parents deal with one set of kids while we call the police on another set of kids? That's not the right thing to do." - President Obama
I find it interesting that we live in a country and a time where much of the fodder around this latest headline speech is that our President is becoming what we feared he'd become... Huh?
#schooltoprisonpipeline #stopthecycle #newdayslavery #disciminatoryincarceration #massincarceration #mybrotherskeeper #juvenilesentencing #futurecitizens #notsustainable #HumanRights #EqualRights #mandatorydiscretion #JusticeReform
#logic
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